PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa set another record at the May 7-10 Macau Poker Cup with the Red Dragon event awarding nearly HKD $1.12 million in prize money!

Nearly 900 players participated during the Macau Poker Cup week and players received winnings of approximately HKD $1.9 million in prize money and tournament entries.

Tabcorp’s South East Queensland Casinos (Conrad Jupiters and Conrad Treasury) and PokerStars.net announced that the first season of the PokerStars.net Australia and New Zealand Poker Tour will culminate in Queensland, Australia this August 5-9. This historic event will be the first time a major poker tournament has ever been held in the state of Queensland.

John Duthie, Chief Executive of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour (EPT), announced the first half of the schedule for EPT Season Six. The European Poker Tour is now the world’s richest poker tour in terms of both players and prize pools and is sponsored by PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site with over 23 million registered players worldwide.

"The new EPT season includes many events which have made the past five seasons such a triumph with world record breaking fields and prize pools across Europe.” said Duthie. “We have set very high standards and we aim to improve on this still further in Season Six - with new additions to the schedule as well as a richer mix of games and buy-ins to cater for more players.”

On May 3rd, Paren Arzoomanian from the Sydney suburb of Belrose beat out 492 poker hopefuls to become the inaugural PokerStars.net Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) Sydney Champion.

The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour has a new Grand Final champion. Pieter de Korver, 26, from Leeuwarden, Holland, a member of the new Team PokerStars Pro Netherlands, has won €2.3million at the richest poker tournament ever held outside Las Vegas.